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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby and Kevin MoffettTree|title=The Silent HistoryWe'll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Well, they kept this quiet – for reasons that will become obvious. A couple of years ago people in America were giving birth to problematic kids. They (the children) were soon found Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be unnaturally quiet – perhaps crying with hunger or pain, but never even trying to 'ooga-wooga' their way into their parents' hearts. They were later found to be completely unable to speak, they could not read and indeed they could not understand anything said to them, or shown them, as an instruction. They were physically unable to parse anything as languagedifferent from his father, a drunk and were in a silent world chronic underachiever whose dreams of their own. But right about now they and we are combining worlds – schools are being set up, and funds are being made available, exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and people are coming down on the who had endless divide as to whether they are just problematic, disabled – or even the blessed. In a couple crises of years, however, the problems the virus that is causing these people to be born with will be shown to be a major problem – and that is before the kids themselves changeself confidence. For they will be able So Tim applied himself to switch their mental his studies, cultivated his abilities much like a blind man can hear more rather than the average, his daydreams and will be able to comprehend body and facial language much more coherently than anyone elseset himself high but achievable ambitions. Throughout this timeline, however, people will be working hard to try and study the problem, and put it right – if indeed 'right' is the correct word…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>009959286X</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meike ZiervogelB0C47LV1PC|title=KautharFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Meet Lydia. She's Can you make a normal British girl, interested in following both her father, and Nadia Comaneci, into the world of gymnastics but not brave enough to pull off the larger set pieces, and with not much more to interrupt her days than wondering why boys always have to talk about their willies. Now meet Kauthar, a white British convert to Islam, devoted follower of the precepts of her religion, ardent wife and stalwartly self-fulfilling, no-nonsense and satisfied. But what is this – why is she talking of being alone in a desert, and why is she directly addressing her god regarding how she ''can't perform any movement. Because it is torn apartYo birthing person''joke? Has something gone wrongAnd if you could, is the question should you make it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip K Dick|title= Humpty Dumpty in Oakland|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Dick Or is known primarily as a science fiction writerthe question if you did, most famously for the novel would it land? The catch is that spawned the film ''Blade Runner''answer for both could well be.... no.

I read that novel - [[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick|Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]] - when I was about ten or eleven, a good ten years or so before ''Fragility'' is set as the film came out and – to be fair – a good five years or so before I was fully capable city of understanding the philosophical and ethical issues embedded in it. Not beforePortland, howeverOregon, I was capable of asking cautiously begins to emerge from the kind of questions that would get me restrictions imposed during the kind of answers that form my standpoint on those issues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473209579</amazonuk>covid pandemic

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie Bishop Mosby Woods|title= The Other Side of the WorldA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= This is a beautifully written book, located both in England and Australia, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and The West isn't the universal desire for identity and belongingdominant force it once was. This theme is also reflected Nobody in the search for union and fulfilment in West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the marriage best course of Henry and Charlotte, struggling with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continentsaction. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Chang Ying-Tai and Darryl Sterk (translator)|title= The Bear Whispers To Me: The Story of a Bear and a Boy|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary=Award winning Taiwanese writer Chang Ying-Tai's emotive, elegiac fable is a meditation on the art of storytellingGovernments are flailing. Its immersive detail and enchanting musical cadences give it a magicalA war here, dream like quality. It is a special work as it is one of the few examples of Taiwanese fiction available in Englishpush for climate action there. The blind Paiwan poet Monaneng said of aboriginal Taiwanese culture: "With tender care let us set in motion our blood A feeling that nobody is once again warmin actual charge.<br>Let us recall our songsImagine then, our dances, our sacred ritualsthere was a man with precognition.<br> And Imagine the tradition strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of unselfish mutual coexistence between us and circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the earthmost valuable asset in history. This is exactly what "The Bear Whispers Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to Me" effortlessly does.get it back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993215408</amazonuk>B0C9SNG8R1

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Uhlman0571379559|title=ReunionThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Hans Schwarz was a jew and attended ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the Karl Alexander Gymnasium, the most famous grammar school in Wurttembergstory of four people. At sixteen he didnTess Hembry't really have a friend and was slightly apart from the other cliques s roots are in his classJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, until she lives in the arrival house on the riverbank, built of Konradin von Hohenfelsbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the elegantly-dressed son passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the aristocracydelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. For some reason Hans They have twin boys - Sonny and Konradin became the best of friendsMax, spending a glorious summer walking in the Swabian hills, comparing their coin collections and talking about everythingrainbow twins. Only slowly does it occur to Hans that whilst Konradin is made welcome in Sonny's colouring reflects his home, Hans can only visit Konradinmother's home when Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his parents are absentfather. This was February 1932 People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and in the closing years of the Weimar Republicthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1860463657</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivan VladislavicClaire North|title=101 DetectivesHouse of Odysseus|rating=3.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=101 Detectives had me baffled. ''What could matter more than love?'' The book comprises of follow-up to the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a collection few months after where we left off. In the palace of stories which explore multiple themes from Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husband, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the perspective throne of one personthe Western Isles. The stories are as varied as Having survived – politically and physical – the characters presenting chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the tale to youbrink of a fragile peace. This exquisitely written book leaves you asking many questions One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and pondering many ideashis sister Elektra, seeking refuge. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908276568</amazonuk>0356516075

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jan-Philipp SendkerKay Chronister|title= Whispering ShadowsDesert Creatures|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Paul Leibovitz was a journalist. That was before. Before he had a small child, who did not survive as long as he should have. Before the end of the marriage that did not survive the loss of a child. Now Leibovitz himself, merely survives. He lives in a kind of self-imposed exile on Lamma, third largest of the Hong Kong islands, a place of greenery and solitude.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Walton|title= The Just City|rating= 3.54

|summary=Urged on by her brother ApolloWith a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, goddess Pallas Athene founds the Just City of Atlantis – a city based on Plato’s republicpost-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Filling Whether it with an assortments is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of adults collected from throughout timewater or a nuclear holocaust, as well as ten thousand ten year olds, (one of whom this genre is a disguised Apollo)way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Whilst ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the city flourishes, the arrival of Socrates may prove fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to be a fly in the ointment…find hope.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150767</amazonuk>1803364998

{{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= David FinkleEric LaRocca|title= The Man With The OvercoatTrees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 3.5|genre= General FictionHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad''Why would anyone - he was soon to ask himself innumerable times - take , whether that is a home invader, a coat from monster or a complete stranger only because ghost, it had been offered?'' Skip Gerber steps off usually something tangible and, by the elevator after a long day at work; the foyer end of his office building is busy and buzzy and he does not notice the man holding the overcoat until the man hands it to Skip telling him to story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''take very good care of itThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There''. Skip unthinkingly grasps the coat and before he has the chance to realise what he is doing - and not like that he . It is now holding an overcoat a collection of unknown providence - short stories more interested in the man disappears out horrors of the exit door illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to the buildingdefeat than any ''Big Bad''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992618525</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca DinersteinMadelaine Lucas|title=The Sunlit NightThirst for Salt|rating=45

|summary=Frances comes from ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'desperately artistic family' Told from a retrospective view, her father a medical illustrator and young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her mother an interior designer. Along Overlaid with her younger sister Sarahlater wisdom, she grew up in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan: bunk beds for the girls and narrator relives the affair with a fold-out sofa bed for man twenty years her senior from its inception – the parents. The claustrophobic atmosphere has gotten summer after finishing university – to everyone and now, with Frances graduating from college, it looks like its sorrowful end the family might fall apartsummer after. Her parents argue constantly and disapprove Set against the backdrop of Sarahan isolated Australian coastal town 's fiancé (not 'Thirst for Salt'just'details the 24-year-old narrator' because he isn't Jewish). Frances has s deepening relationship with her own romantic crisis: after a pregnancy scareolder lover, Robert breaks up with her. A highdepicting its all-flyer with a future in politicsconsuming nature, he tells how it changed her that her art has no purpose; it isn't helping anyone. 'What does perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it matter if you do what you love, if what you love doesn't matter?' she asks altered her father. Still, she has no other prospects, so agrees to take up a painting apprenticeship in the furthest reaches of Norway; 'All I had was a direction, northirrevocably.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863049</amazonuk>0861546490

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire FullertonMichael Grothaus|title=Dancing to an Irish ReelBeautiful Shining People

|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Hailey was on a sabbatical from her job in the music business in Los Angeles ''But fearing something and taking the holiday of a lifetime having it come to Ireland, when she walked into the Galway Music Centre and found a job which she simply couldnpass are two different things. And I't turn down. She also found a home in a local villagem willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, a liking for the rural life and a man whom she could love. Liam Hennessy was a talented accordion player: music was his life and whilst he was more attracted to Hailey than he had ever been or we can take steps to another woman change it wasn.'t entirely clear whether 'love ''Beautiful Shining People'' could ever revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be on human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the cards for himdevelopment of technology is exciting or frightening.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0990304256</amazonuk>191458564X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessie Greengrass Jennifer Saint|title=An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It Atalanta|rating=3|genre=Short Stories|summary=The title story, which appears first, is exactly what it says on the tin: one hunter's story of travelling to remote islands to take part in massive culls of great auks, until they were simply gone. It's always hard to believe that species that once numbered in their millions, such as the passenger pigeon, could go extinct so quickly, but when you read about the brutal slaughter tactics here – swinging clubs and boiling birds alive – you can see how a flightless bird was a sitting target. The narrator makes no real attempt to defend himself: the birds were there for the taking; that was that. Still, he regrets their extinction, because 'in any loss you can see a shadow of the way that you will be lost yourself.' (Those interested in the great auk's extinction may also want to read the 2013 novel ''The Collector of Lost Things'' by Jeremy Page.)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473610850</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patricia Park|title=Re Jane|rating=3.5

|summary= Growing up in Flushing''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, New York –Jane Re has long been hoping to escape her whole lifeI vowed. A half-KoreanI would take my place, half-American Orphan, Jane struggles to find her place as a spirited and intelligent young woman growing up not just in a strict and mirthless family, observing the traditional Korean principle name of “Nunchi” (a combination the goddess. It was for the sake of good mannersmy name, obligation and hierarchy)too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Desperate to escape Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Jane Atalanta is thrilled when she becomes raised under the protective eye of the au pair for goddess Athemis and fashioned into a rich couple – two Brooklyn based professors of Englishformidable huntress, one who have adopted a young Chinese girl into their familylongs for adventure. Jane soon falls for When the man of opportunity comes – to join the familyArgonauts, but their blossoming affair is soon curtailed by a family deathfierce band of warriors, prompting Jane’s return descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to Korea. As she learns more about herself, fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history . What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and her culturediscovery and through it, Jane Atalanta must make huge decisions about her liferemember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her future, and her man…undoing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525427406</amazonuk>1472292154

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia DunckerAmanthi Harris|title=Sophie and the Sibyl: A Victorian Romance|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Sophie and the Sibyl'', consciously modelled on John Fowles's ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', is a postmodern blending of history, fiction, and metafictional commentary. Brothers Max and Wolfgang Duncker really were George Eliot's German publishers, but the accident of their surname matching the author's makes them her clever stand-in. As the novel opens in 1872, the venerable English author is exploring Homburg and Berlin in the company of her 'husband' while ushering her latest novel, ''Middlemarch'', into German translation. Max, a young cad fond of casinos and brothels, has two tasks: ensuring Eliot's loyalty to their publishing house, and securing Countess Sophie von Hahn's hand in marriage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886052X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sara Baume|title=Spill Simmer Falter WitherBeautiful Place

|summary=Every Tuesday he goes into townPadma, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This particular Tuesday he sees an advert for is a rescue dog that's been badly treated by its previous ownerplace she spent her formative years. Somewhere It is not a place she was born into, but the ad strikes a resonance and he adopts one she thinks of as home. How she came to be at the dogVilla, calling how it Oneeye (yes, one wordbecame her home, just like that). Gradually over shared meals a friendship grows and develops over the seasons as machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the spill of spring turns to summer's simmer, through the falter of autumn 'score'' for this gentle and on to withering winteryet subtly violent novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992817064</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Laub|title=Diary of the Fall|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Diary of the Fall is a story about regret, guilt and resentment. It Padma's told from present fails to escape her past and much like the point musical score of view of an unnamed narratora film, who reflects on not just his own life but also that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the lives of his father and grandfatherVilla.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099581795</amazonuk>1784631930

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Emily Boyce (translator) and Jane Aitken (translator)178563335X|title=The Red NotebookSea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Laure. SheWhen we first meet Rachel Bird she's a widow trainee vicar, sitting in her 40son a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, who is entering her Parisian apartment building one night when she's muggedChristopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her handbag stolenelder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Meet Laurent, a middleThelma's daughter-aged bookseller, who happens upon the handbag the following morning in the street-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, just before on the binmen take it awayNorfolk coast, never to be seen again. More or less snubbed when trying to hand it to the police as lost propertyis a lovely place, he decides but Rachel is struggling to take it upon himself to reunite develop a real bond with the bag with its rightful owner. He has no idea their names are so intimately linked, parish - and despite a lot she's in awe of things being in the bag (including the titular notebook) there is no cashvicar, Gail, no phone and no ID documentation at all. Whatbut then she's been doing the job for more – than thirty years. Rachel and what looks like making the idea even more fruitless – he has no idea Christopher hoped that Laure has fallen into a coma as a result of walk on the mugging…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908313862</amazonuk>beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Edward Parnell 1398515388|title= The Listeners |rating= 4 |genre= Literary Fiction |summary=May 1940. William Abrehart has not spoken since the mysterious death of his father, choosing instead to spend his days in the woods that surround his home. A promise he made to his dying father means that he is responsible for the wellbeing of his two sisters, Boy and their withdrawn mother. Over the course of a weekend, ghosts of the past cause buried secrets, lies and promises to come spilling out - culminating in a series of shocking events. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781331065</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewDog|author=Nadia Hashimi|title=The Pearl a That Broke Its ShellSeishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Kabul 2007: Rahima First of all, it was the earthquake, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami and her sisters are followed home from school one day by a boy on his bikethis, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdown. The result was complete and utter devastation. He taunts them innocently enough as little boys do, but with no sibling brother The deaths were uncountable, and the girls are unchaperoned in this land loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that is ruled by many pets were separated from their owners came far down the laws list of menpriorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience store. And as daughters in He wasn't a household without sons, in a country dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that is governed by fear, he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the consequences will weigh heavily for them alldog jumped in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062244760</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norah Vincent0989715337|title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Back in 1999, when ''The Hours'' won the Pulitzer Prize, Michael Cunningham set a precedent for depicting Woolf's later life and suicide. Nicole Kidman won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Woolf in the film version of Papa on the novel; she is best remembered for wearing a prosthetic nose. Fast forward 15 years. In 2014–2015 alone, three major novels about Virginia Woolf have been published. That confluence, especially in a year that does not mark a significant anniversary, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349005648</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMoon|author=Ivan Repila and Sophie Hughes (translator)|title=The Boy Who Stole Attila's HorseMarco North

|summary=If you pick up a copy of this book you realise how small it is''Some frogs had gotten into the well. You'll know' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of coursetheir eggs wove around him, that pockets hardly exist that are normally big enough to hold what we used to call a pocket book, but here is sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the exception to prove the rule. It's wee. The story is on a hundred pages. The concision is partly down to it starting after dogs leaned over the beginning, for we first meet Big opening and Small, two brothers, once they're stuck barked down a large well in at the middle strange noise of a forestthe buckets as he filled them. Tasked with a family errand, they're trapped at ' How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the bottom form of a natural Erlenmeyer flaskinterconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, and even turning on a desperate move cannot get either outsixpence. This is And author Marco North, who has the story most wonderful turn of the next three months in their existencephrase, starts as they brave hunger, delirium, loss of language, and the brute and unstinting human selfishness needed for existencehe means to go on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271015</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jamie KornegayDaisy Hildyard|title=Soil|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Jay Mize is a scientific man with a particular interest in soil and agriculture. He decides he is the one to pioneer a revolution in farming techniques and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land in the country. Jay is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave him. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at the end of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is released.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Campbell|title=RiseEmergency

|summary=Justine is running for her life. She's had enough The summary of being someone elsethis book doesn's property, of being subjected t come close to the kind of love that has seen her tattooed and owned and beaten and rented out to others to earn her keep. So she's taken explaining what isn't hers, but then was never actually his either, and she's packed a bag, waited until he is drunk-enough asleep not to hear her say goodbye to done with the dog, and has leftpremise.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408857928</amazonuk>1913097811}} {{newreviewFrontpage |author=Dorthe NorsSally Oliver |title=Karate Chop, and Minna Needs Rehearsal SpaceThe Weight of Loss |rating=3.54 |genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=The reviewer picks up the book.<br>The book Marianne is called ''Minna Needs Rehearsal Space''grieving.<br>The book is entirely made out Traumatised after the death of one-sentence paragraphs.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs are very seldom poetic, but normally are grammatically correct sentences.<br>The one-sentence paragraphs on the whole have just one verbher sister, unless regarding that from reported or unreported speech.<br>The book concerns a middle-aged musician and composer who does indeed need rehearsal space.<br>The book concerns a woman who suddenly gets more space than she wants when her boyfriend leaves her.<br>The boyfriend's departure causes a lot of people crowding around Minnaawakes to find strange, which causes a problem.<br>The problem might be resolved by a trip away thick black hairs sprouting from her city flat.<br>The title of the book might be ironic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chigozie Obioma|title=The Fishermen|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book is essentially a cautionary family tale bones of four brothers her spine which steadily increase in size and the way they react to a prophecy about them by the local madmanvolume. It is alsoHer GP, in diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a sensephysical reaction to her grief, a coming-of-age story where Ben, the young narratorrecommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is plunged into premature adulthood under happening to Marianne and the most brutal other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of circumstancesa kind. And it is about brotherly love. None As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of these descriptions, however, convey the fact memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that this book is written by an exciting new voice in African literary fictionof identity itself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0957548850</amazonuk>086154112X }}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer ClementNatalia Garcia Freire|title=Prayers for the StolenThis World Does Not Belong To Us|rating=3.5

|summary=Ladydi Garcia Martínez lives in rural Chilpancingo, MexicoEarly comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delight. I will agree with her mother, Rita, who works as the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a cleaning lady for delight' is perhaps using the expression in a rich familyway I'm not familiar with. Like many I have to confess my ignorance of the men in their town who left to find work, Ladydi's father crossed Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the river into America, where he is rumoured to little I have another family. As a resultread (in translation, this is very much a matriarchal community. Rita describes the situation for Ladydi's teacher: 'You men I don't get it, yet, do you? This is read Spanish) there does seem to be a land of womentendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realism. Mexico belongs to women.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099587599</amazonuk>0861541901

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrossmanJennifer Saint|title=Falling Out of TimeElektra

|summary=Like the central characters in 'Elektra'Falling Out by Jennifer Saint tells the story of Time'', Israeli author David Grossman lost his son, a soldier named Uri, during three women who live in the Middle East conflict. In this multifaceted examination heavily male dominated world of bereavement, it seems that everyone has lost a childAncient Greece. The genre-bending mixture of poetryCassandra, absurdist dialogueClytemnestra, and an inverted fairy tale reflects Elektra are all bit players in the difficulty story of ever capturing grief in languagethe Trojan War. Each story Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and each strategy is like a new way of approaching the unspeakablemost extreme furies.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099583720</amazonuk>1472273915

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samantha Ellis8409290103|title=How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too muchIf Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5

|summary=''How Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to be send him a Heroine'' is a pleasant monthly allowance. Patrick sent the money regularly and addictive read. Playwright Samantha Ellis looks back at her childhood as a voracious reader and remembers correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the characters that influenced hertwo although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. These are as diverse as Sylvia Plath, It wasn't that Lowry senior didn'Little Women't care for his son, it was that he didn' t care to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and Scheherazadeother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian WalthewAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Complex Chemistry of LossRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Deep [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in rural France James Kerr my house. And so was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. His mental problems were deep this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and intractablered. Superficially Yes, he seemed never has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to have got over say not one page lacks the sudden death of his mother and sister when he was a child and after their death his relationship with his father had deteriorated because his father refused to speak influence of their loss. There were additional factors too: Kerr had spent some time in Afghanistan in a secret capacity. In fact much of his life since he went to university had involved putting up a front, but doing something else in the backgroundstriking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00OLMHCW2</amazonuk>1913547183

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael ChristieB098FFFBH9|title=If I Fall, If I DieSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|summary=It probably tells you Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a lot about competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the atmosphere animal world. She gets a great deal of this book that for the whole time I was reading itsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, I thought the title was ''If I Fallmother Kate and her twin, I Die''Nick. That missing second Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel'If'' is probably at the crux s main (if unsuspected) source of the whole taleinformation: five soft toys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402306X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Virginia BurgesYancey Williams|title=The VirtuosoCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=34.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The title character of ''The Virtuoso'' Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is Isabelle Bryantgetting on in years and, a professional violinist who has earned the affectionate nickname of 'Beethovendespite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's Babe'. She was the youngestpoint of view -ever winner in room 315 of the BBC Young Musician Garden of the Year competition and gave her first solo performanceEden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, of Beethoven's violin concertoJenkins, at Royal Albert Hallfor palatable company. 'Her violin represented another limb Nothing is going to herkeep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, it was that precious. It felt so naturalhere, for his readers, like an extension of her body.' It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that the violin is Isabelleare his wanderings through his life's lifework.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00R07U0B0</amazonuk>0986031658}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Foulds0008421714|title=In The Wolf's MouthMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5

|summary=In Sicily, bandits steal The problem began just after the sheep publication of a young shepherdGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Distraught Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, he seeks out his local Mafioso for help. Sixteen years laterPatricia asked, two men are traveling to Sicily - oneas she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a young English officercharacter on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, and the other an American infantrymanprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. They are all soon thrust into a war Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is greater and more terrible than anything they could have dreamedthe whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, and they all must find different ways to survive its terrorsunloveable wretch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958686X</amazonuk>''